Method of baling fibrous material.



PATENTED 1130 a; 1904.

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WQL. mm; A ETHOD OF BALING FIBROUS MATERIAL.

APRLIOATION FILED SEPT 19 1994.

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W. L. SPOON.

METHOD OFBALING FIBROUS MATERIAL. APPLI'OATION TILED SEPT. 19 1904.

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PATBNTED DEC. 6, 1904.

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APPLICATION FILED 19. 1904.

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WILLIAM L. SPOON, OF OOBLE TOW NSHTPflALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

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SPECIFICATION forming 'part of Letters Patent No. 776,956, datediDecember 6, 1904.

Original applications filed October 24;, 1896, Serial No. 609,902, and September 10, 1901-, Serial No. 74,985. Divided and this applies.

tion filed September 19,1904. Serial No. 224,950. (No modelfl To all (u/mm, it may concern:

Be it known that 1. WILLIAM L. SrooN, a citi-' zen of the United States, residlng 1n (Joble township, in the countyo-i' Alamance and Eitate 5 of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful improvement in li'lcthods of. Baling Fibrous Material, of which the following isa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates particularly to the baling or cotton and similar fibrous materials which have relatively high commercial values and require to be wellpreserved from the time and place of harvesting to the time and 5 place of use in mill or factory. The most important of these fibrous materials is cotton. The practice of my invention results in the forming of round or cylindrical bales having characteristics to be hereinafter described. The prime consideration in the baling of such fibrous material, particularly cotton, is density. It is desirable that the largest practicable amount of cotton be put into a halo of a given volume. This is desirable for the sake of saving space in storage of'the bales in warehouses and in stowing the bales into cars and ships for transportation. Such density isalso desirable for the sake of cleanliness. The more dense a bale is the smaller is the 0 percentage of fiber so exposed as to become soiled during storage or handling of the bale, and density is also desirable for the sake of avoiding or reducing waste. A bale which is very dense will shed the least liber'in handling and will permit the least removal of .fibcr by persons who pil fer by taking cotton from bales. High density is also desirable, because it tends to render bales fireproof. The greater the density the more difiicult it is to 4 ignite a bale and the more slowly it will burn after being ignited. This statement is especially applicable when the operation is such as to expel and exclude the air lrom between the fibers, so that the interior of the bale is substantially free from. oxygen to support combustion. While loose. cotton. or 'cotton which is packed to only moderate density may;

be readily ignited and then burns with great rapidity, cotton which is baled to high density and in such manner as to exclude the 5 air will burn but little, if any, more rapidly than will a block of wood of corresprmding dimensions and shape, and the cotton which is packed to great density in the bale is more secure agailiist injury from dampness than is cotton which is loosely packed. The greater the density the less the permeation of atmospheric moisture and the less the absorption of water if the bale becomes immersed in water or becomes showered or flooded by .eliort to prevent or subdue lire; but Whiledensity-is for the various reasons enumerateddesirable it must be attained without injury to the fibrous material. in baling .cotton, although it ishighlydesirable to attain great density, the 5 cotton fiber must not be scorched, nor bruised. norcrushed,.nor broken. Itis well recognized in thetextile industry that the value of cotton may be reduced or completely destroyed by such injury to the cotton fiber, and the at- 7 taining 01 high density merely at the time of forming the bale is notsuflicient. The structure of the bale must bcsuch as to adapt it to maintain the. high density for an indefinite time. stabilityfl This term as here used means that the bale must have no tendency to change 'form, or if ithave such tendency the structure oi the halo must be such as that said tendency can be readily and effectually overcome by as 5 mechanical means. In order that the bale may have such stability, it must not be constructed of masses which are not adapted to retain the position into which they are placed in the forming'oi the bale. For example,- 35 round or rope-like masses laid parallel to each other and put under pressure will tend to press each other sidewise. To illustrate, if

a cylindric bale twenty inches in diameter and forty inches long were formed of two'inch 9o rope coiled around the bale-axis and pressure I.

- .were applied to the bale parallel to the axis each coiloi' rope would crowd the adjoining coils sidewise, so that the bale would bulge outward at the-middle. (There is a railway- 95 car draw-head in which coiled springs are iu- The bale must in this" respect have i ppsed that a bale twenty inches in diameter has heretofore been proposed to form round bales by a spiral arrangement of rope-like or hasbeen practically demonstrated. Further.

sheets which are of even thickness and extend bats, and such sheets or bats must be to the for there would be no oblique faces bearing upon each other witha wedge-like action. .By the use of sheets tendency toward movefibrous material into a sheet formof substantial continuity and uniformity of thickness is all portions of the bale.

and such structure must also lack stability.

"at the top and bottom of the column are tentionally arranged to thus crowd each other sidewise, so that thespring bulges when the draw-head is pushed'or pulled with great force.) 11 it were attemped to makea dense cotton-baleby similarlybuilding up rop e 'like spiral coils, such a bale could never have stability and high density[ Theendwise pres sure for producing density would cause the coils to crowd each other sidewise, and the greater the pressure applied the more the bale would bulge between its ends, and finally disrupt or collapse. To attain stability and high density, the cotton must be laid in sheets 01* greatest practicable extent continuous and uniformly thick. 'To illustrate, let it besupand forty inches .long is to'be formed by superposing on a common axial line circular sheets of cotton cloth having a diameter of twenty inches. It will be readily understood that on applying endwise pressure to such a bale there would be substantially no tendency of the bale to bulge outward between its ends,

ment in lines perpendicular to the direction of pressure may be substantially eliminated, and the more the sheet is organizedthe fibers made to engage each other-themore 'fully will this result be attained. It

irregularmass'es, and the lack of stability-0t such bales for the reasons above pointed out more; the arrangement or organization of the essential to the attainment ofv high density in.

if the cotton is added to the forming bale in'masses' other than over the entire area to which material is being applied, greater quantities will be applied to some portions of said'area than to other portions, and where such greater quantities are applied maximum density will be attained, and elsewhere a less density will be attained,

To illustrate, let us suppose that sheets ten inches square of any fabric be superposed to form a column twenty inches high and that all such sheets are a little thicker at the right-hand side than at the left-hand side or that some of thesheets are not continuous to the lefthand side and that a platen is made to bear directly downward upon such column. Obviously only the right-hand portion. of the column will be under compression, and said portion will be relatively narrow and free to bulge outward and permit the entire column to collapse, or let it be supposed that the sheets thicker alongrthe right-hand edge and the thickeningin the sheets gradually shifts to ward the middle of the sheets as the middleof the column isapproached. Then the column will-have practically no stabihty, for it will,

in effect, be curvedlaterally between its ends, 1 and its middle portion wouldpromptly movelaterally in response to pressure upon its upper end, andstability may be increased by the exclusion of air. If the air is completely excluded or expelled, the fibers come into closer contact with each other and can consequently make closer engagement with each other than J would be the case with air distributed through the bale. Inthis connection it must be remembered that air isa highly elastic and mobile material and notat all adapted to density, solidity, or stability. A fibrous bale which is to be dense, solid. and stable must nothave quantities of this elastic medium intermingled with the fibers, and, as already herein suggested, the exclusion of air from the bale tends toprevent the burning of the bale. It

will-[be .readilyxunderstood that a bale permeatedthroughout its entire volume by air, aliording oxygen in app'roximately proper proportions to support combustion of the adjacent fibers, will burn much more rapidly l thaniwill a bale from which substantially all the air has beenexpelled and excluded, and it is practically impossible to expel the air from alarge-In'ass of cotton; but substantially all the air caneasily be expelled by'progressively compressing a thin uniform sheet of cotton, and the-thinner the sheets applied to'any, area of the bale'the easierit is tolayeach successive sheet or convolution of the sheet at maximum density. Relativelysmall pressure is required to press or rollathin sheet closely upon thepor-tion of the balealready formed, and to attain great density and to exclude the .air (not only for the sake of density, but to retard combustion) the fibers of the cotton should be to the largest practicable degree paralleled. It will be readily understood that amass of cylindric stickspiled upon each other in promiscuous,unorganized, or amorphous manner would occupy much more space than if they were all arranged parallel to each other, and it will be understood that if such sticks were'tubular, (as cotton fibers are,) and therefore more crushable, and were arranged crosswise of each other in a press and pressure then applied they would be bruised, crushed, and broken where they cross, while if they were arranged parallel to each other each would give support to the others throughout theirlength and the pressure wouldnot be concentrated upon particular points. From this it will v be understood that not only Will the paralleled cotton fibersoccupy less space, and therefore permit putting greater" quantity into a bale of a given size with the same pressure,- but the paralleled fibers are adapted to endure greater pressure without injury, and to make main under tension.

rapidity at theoppOsite edge.

the bale dense and also self-binding, as will be hereinafter described; the fibers should not only be paralleled, but they should also be intertwined in order that the sheets may be a fabric adapted to be placed under and relln the practice of my' method the cotton is taken continuously in small-quantities (a thin sheet-form stream) from a' loose or unorgan-' izeclniass of cotton and formed, organized,

' or fabricated into a hat or sheet of substan tial continuity and uniformity of thickness, and in organizing the sheet and applying it the fibers are more orless paralleled and drawn or intertwined, and such sheet is .made'quitc thin, and the operation of foriningororgan; izing said sheet or bat varies gradually in rapidity from one edge of the sheet to the other, such variation being'lrom substantially zero at one margin or edge to the maximum On account of such variation in rapidity the sheet as sumes a spiral form with one edge directed toward the ,axis of the spiral. Such operalZlOIljtS a whole results in forming, organizing,

or fabricating a. thin spiral sheet of substan tial continuity. and even thickness from edge to edge and from end toend and having its fibers paralleled and drawn or intertwined.

"For convenience said sheet. is hereinafter termed a spiral sheet, and the stream of fibers from which said sheet is formedis termed a sheet-spiral stream. If the ra pidity of formation at one edge of the sheet approximates zero, said edge will extend approximately to the axis of the spiral." Said edge may be termedthe inner or axial of the bale-trunk, and as the sheet is-being soformed and organized it is preferably su bjected to an initial or preliminary pressure, whereby it is made dense and the air is expelled, and subsequent to such initial compression said sheet is preferably kept under tension for -the maintenance of such compression and exclusion of air and for the further drawing of the fiber and for the placing of the sheet or. bat upon the form ing bale or bale-trunk under tension. For the forming of the bale(or bale-trunk, which may be "severed into sections constituting bales) the convolutions of said spiral sheet are, as fast as the sheet is formed, laid closely or densely against each other by suitable pressure, the axial edge of the sheet extend- Waste 3 ing approximately to the axis of the halo and the peri 'iheral edgco'f the sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale, and'the sheet is.- prelerably laid against the preceding mass,

increment by incremenhin such manner andwith such pressure asto at once attain the full densitywhich it is sought to impart to the completed bale. For convenience in de scription such density maybe termed com: plete density. Usually complete density should be approximately the highest density which the cotton can endure without injury.

given an initial compression for the attainment otdensity and expression of air. When this is done,on being laid against the end of the balctrunli the. pressure required for the iinal'com- As already stated, the hat or sheet is preferably pression to attain complete density may be much redueedon account of such initial compression. During the operation the unorga nized cotton is preferably kc pt away front the forming bale-trunk, as will be hereinafter more-fully disclosed. TlIGODBi'fllJlOIl of forming said sheet and bale; will be more fully described by reference to the accompanying drawings.

As already indicated, the spiral sheet is progressively applied to or built upon the end of the forming bale or bale-trunk. I Hence the bale may be termed an end-formed or end-built bale.

.The method constituting this invention may be practiced or carried out byvarious me chanical means. As an example of such means lrefer to the machine described in my applications for Letters Patent of. the United States, Serial No. 609,902, filed October 24, 1896, and Serial No. 74,985, .iiled September 10,

1901, of which applications the present application is a division.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion'of the spiral sheet used in forming my bales. Fig.

2 is an edge elevation of a single convolution of said spiral sheet. Big. 3 is the same convolution in obtuse conical form; Fig. 4E illustrates the same convolution in less obtuseconical form. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a bale-trunkformed by my. improved method. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the left-hand or "forming end ofthe bale-trunkshowri in Fig. 5. Fig.7 is a sectional side elcv-ation'ot' a bale severed from the right-hand end oflthe bale-trunk shown by Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is an end elevation oi. the bale shown by Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is an elevation of the forming end of a bale-trnnk'which is being formed by the simultaneous application of two spiral sheets orv bats. Fig. 10 is a perspective View of sections of such two spiral sheets. fragmentary section of a form of mechanism adapted to be used in the practice of my improved method. Fig. 12 is a transverse sectional elevation of mechanism for forming and applying the spiralv sheets; Fig. 13, a trans- Fig. 11 is a "placed at an angle to the axis of verse sectional elevation showing mechanism 7 for applying covering material to the baletrunk and for transversely severing the hale trunk into sections. Figs. 1a and are re-' speetivelyacross-section and a detail elevation of the saw. Fi s. 16 and 17 are simisheet. It may be most readily placed at an angle of approximately ninety degrees to said axis, as shown in Fig. 2. To form Figs. 2, 3, and a, a single convolution of the'sheet is cut from thesection of the sheet shown by Fig. 1 Such convolution is-substantially a circular diskwhose radius equals the width of the spiral sheet. Such a disk-form section if arranged at an angle of substantially ninety de- 'rees to the axis of the' baletrurik would stand as shown in Fig. 2; but if said angle is to be less than ninety degrees the section wouldchange from disk form to'obtuse con ical form, the edges A B of said section over: lapping,-aas shown 'by-Fig. 3,"and itwill be i observed .that the dia'meter of the base of such cone will be less than the diameter of the disk form of the section was. .If said angle is to 'be still less, the section is formed into a cone which is still less obtuse, the. edges A B over-- lapping to a greater extent, and it'will be observed that this will still further reduce the diameterot' the base of the cone. In the baletrunk shown in Fig. 5 the angle of the sheet and the diameter of the cone are still further reduced, and it Wlll'IIOW. be apparent that for a hat or sheet of a given width the diameter of the bale-trunk varies with the angle which the sheet sustains to the bale-trunk axis. In these several gradations (illustratedby Figs. 1, 2, 3, L, and-5) the sheet is the same in or ganization, nature. and dimensions. It is the identical sheet in different p0sitions, and in laying the sheet the final compression is always perpendicular to thesheet, indicated by the arrows, so that when the angle of the layer is changed the direction :01 the final pressure must. be correspondingly changed. Any inclination of the sheet will answer it it is intended to maintain the form of the bale only by externalmechanical means bands orother stays. Indeed, for .this purpose an angle of approximately ninety degrees is perhapsthe best, for then the stays need be so applied as to act in only one direction namely, lengthwise of the bale; but I havei'ound it desirable to so construct the bale as to adapt it to re sist expansion. In other words, I have found it preferable to place the sheet orbat at suchan angle to the axis of the bale-trunk as to cause each convolution to bear upon or bind a number of preceding convolutions, whereby the bale is made self-binding: In such form the convolutions become conical strictly speaking conoidal, nearly conical-and said conoidal convolutions or layers are nested .closely within each other. The attainment of such result is facilitated by the laying of the forming bat upon the end of the bale-trunk under tension as well as pressure. Not only does such tension increase the self-binding characteristic, but it makes possible the attainment of complete density with less final pressure than would be needed if such density were to be attained by pressure alone. I

Referring now to Figs ll and 12, I will describe the operation so far as it is per.

formed by the particular form-of mechanism illustrated by said figures. Gis a section of a portion of the conical end of the bale-trunk. D is the conical primary roll positiVelyrotated in the direction of the arrow. E is a conical secondary roll rotated at the. same surface speed as the primary roll I) and bearing against the said roll D at K. The primary roll bears upon the bale-trunk at'J, while the secondary roll is of smaller diameter than the primary roll, so that it does not bear against the bale-trunk at all or-with only immaterial pressure. Above the primary and secondary rolls is located a conical feed-roll F, which is positively rotated in the direction of the arrow. Said feed roll is pro' vided with suitable radial teeth G; Fixed walls H are located at each side of the group of rolls D, E, and F. The space between said walls constitutes a slot in whichlsaid rolls are located and through which the cotton passes to theend of' the bale-trunk. I The right-hand upper portion I of the left-hand wall H constitutes a breast which acts in. conjunction with-the feed-roll F, and the space between said roll and said breast constitutes a throat. 7 Above and upon the Walls H H and the feed-roll F rests an unorganized hetero geneous loose mass of cotton separated or isolated from the bale-trunk by the intervening abutment formed by said rolls andwalls H. The rotation of the feed-roll causes the teeth Gr to draw or comb cotton fibers in a thin sheetform stream from said heterogeneous loose mass and present the same to the primary and secondary rolls. The quantity of fiber in said stream depends upon the length, quality, and humidity or dryness of the cotton fiber; the length, form, and number of teeth" Gr; the velocity of rotation of said feed-roll,

and the form of the breast I and its distance I 5 from the feed-roll. Said breast constitutes a resistance to the advance of the fiber. and said resistance must be overcome by the combing or drawing action of. the feed-roll. The greater said distance the greater the quantity Waste} I 5 of fiber entering into said sheet, and the less said distance the thinner said sheet will be. Said sheet is drawn by the rolls D-and E and passed between the latter and along the face of the roll D to the line of contact between said roll and the end of the bale-trun l There said sheet becomes a part of the bale-trunk. The deposit of the sheet upon the bale-trunk is effected by either the rotation of the baletrunk or the revolution of the rolls D, E, and F and the walls H H around the bale-trunk axis. The arrow in the lefthand portion of said Fig. 11 indicates the last mentioned movement. Inasmuch as the said feed-roll.- primary roll, and secondary roll are conical or substantially conical, (see Fi g. 12,) the edge of the fiber sheet generated at the apex ends of said rolls is generated at a rapidity ap, proximating zero, while from said apex edge there is agradual increase of rapidity of gen: eration, approximately proportional to the rate of increase of the circumferences of said rolls fromtheir ape'xes toward their bases.

The drawing or combing of the cotton from the heterogeneous'or loose mass into the passage or throat between the feed-roll and the breast I of the left-hand wall H tends to parallel and draw the fibers in much the same way as the card-rolls of card-engines operate to intertwine and concatenate the fibers. As already stated, the breast 1 acts as a re sistance or obstruction to the passage of the fiber engaged by the feed-roll. This facilitates the taking of uniform quantities of liber by the teeth of the fecd-rol l. While the stream or forming sheet is in engagement between the feed-roll and the breast ll it is also in engagement between the primary and secondary rolls and is by the action of the latter placed under tension, which results in the drawing of said sheet in a manner simi lar tothe action of drawing-frames, where by the fibers of the sheet are further paralleled and intertwined or concatenated. For the purpose of placing the sheet upon the ends of the bale-trunk under tension and also fut- .ther drawing the sheet the surface velocity of the primary roll is made less than the orbital velocity of said roll, so that said roll will pull upon the sheet or bat while the lat- I ter is being laid. in other words, the orbital movement of the primary and secondary rolls or the rotary receding movement of the baletrunk is a little more rapid than the genera tion of the spiral sheet. Hence there is a dragging straining action upon the sheet as it is being laid upon the end of the bale-trunk. cinch pulling or straining exerts a further drawing action upon theportion of the sheet or bat which is below the line of contact be- .Etween the primary and secondary rolls.

1 have already mentioned that an initial 7 compression is preferably given to the sheet,

whereljiy the air is expelled from the sheet the apparatus illustrated by Fig. 11 this ini- This occurs when the sheet passes the contactline between the primary roll and the end of the bale-trunk. As already herein stated, the pressure applied to the sheet while it being laid need be only sul'licient to attain complete density and that this final pressure may be much reduced because of the density attained and retained by the initial compression. In other words, the-density resulting from the manner of organizing the sheet and from the initial compression needs to be supplement ed only by such final compression as will lead to complete density, and, as already herein pointed out, the final compression necessary to lead to complete density may berelatively small in view of the tension under which the bat or sheet is applied.

Additional rolls 1) may be arranged to bear upon the forming end of the bale-trunk, and by providing a plurality of sets of rolls 10,15, and '13, as shown in Fig. 12,.a plurality of sheets or bats may be formed at the same time and simultaneously applied. to the end of the forming bale-trunk. in Fig. 9 I have shown the forming end of a bale-trunk with two spiral sheets being applied thereto, and Fig.

10 shows two such spiral sheets intertwined.

As more andunore of the spiral sheet is added to the end of the bale-trunk the latter and the abutment between the bale-trunk and the mass of unorganized colto'n are relatively separated in the direction parallel to the bale-- a yielding resistance, such resistance being adapted to be overcome when the'desired degree of pressure by the abutment upon the portion of the sheet being laid is attained. For this purpose-the bale-trunk may be made to extend through a tubular passage the walls of which'bear upon the bale-l'irunlt.

In Fig. 12 the four rolls L bear upon the bale and constitute such a resistance. "Eiaid rolls are obliqueto the bale'axis, so that the bale as it is pressed forward rotates said rolls, and is itself rotated by said rollsf From the completed end of the bale-trunk the and opposite the end .to which the forrning-bat is applied--sections of'proper length the sheet acquires a preliminary density. in l to constitute bales are severed periodically.

iiiiiiiii W Such severing may be accomplished by any suitable method or means. I prefer, however, to effect such separation by the removal of whole fibers of cotton throughout the plane of severance in order that the ends of the bales may not contain mutilated fibers. thus removed may be added to the original unorganized mass and allowed to again enter the forming spiral sheet and the bale-trunk, or if said fibers have become bruised or otherwise injured to a material extent they may be put aside to be used as an inferior grade of cotton. Such severing mechanism is shown by jigs. 13, 14,15, 16, and 17. M is an arm mounted radially on the shaft N. O and P are pulleys mounted on said arm. device Q, resembling a" saw, (and on account of such resemblance termed a saw,?) is supported by said pulleys as a band-saw is supported. Said saw is provided with two parallel rows of teeth R, and said teeth are preferably like card-teeth instead of having cutting edges in order that said teeth may pull the fibers without cutting them. The pulleys are rotated, and the arm M is turned toward the bale to bring the saw into engagement with the bale, and said arm is moved parallel to the bale-trunk axis synchronously with the longitudinalfmovement of the bale until the balesection has been severed. 1 i

It is to be observed that, if so desired, all of the bale-trunk may be detached or removed as loften as it attains the length desired for a ba e.

The completed bale-trunk or sections there of may be surrounded by any suitable extra-.

neous binding or wrapping material or means for the sake of preserving the structure of the bale and for the sake of keeping the cotton from being bruised and soiled during handling or storage. '1' prefer to apply to such baletrunk or balesa covering of cloth under progressive radial pressu re accompanied by strain or tension on the cloth, one end or edge of said cloth being pressed against the baletrunk on .a line parallel to the bale-axis and said line of pressure advanced around the bale while the portion of the cloth not yet applied to the bale is kept under tension. By this method the perimeter-surface of the bale, sofar as it may be yielding, will be smoothed and pressed and the air expelled therefrom and the cloth closely laid or bound around the bale under tension. According to a preferred variation of said method of applying said cloth a straight strip or sheet of cloth is laid obliquely or spirally to the bale-axis, the side edges of the sheet of cloth overlapping. In Figs. 5, 7, and 13, S is such a sheet of cloth. In Fig. 13 it is drawn from the reel T between one of the polls L and the bale-trunk (J by the rotation of the bale.

I claim as. my invention l. The method of baling fibrous material,

The fibers A belt form which method consists in generating from a mass of loose fibrous material a sheet-spiral stream of fibers-leading out therefrom, and expressing the air from the stream. by highly compressing the stream between opposed members and forming the compressed sheet in spiral convolutions about an axis. 7

2. The method of baling fibrous material,

which method consists of drawing fibers in aspiral sheet of substantially uniform thickness from a mass of loose material into approximate parallelism and arranging a multiplicity of convolutions of such a sheet together to form a cylindric end-built bale and securing them together against reexpansionf 3. The herein-described methodof baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and expelling the air from and pressing the resulting spiral sheet,increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of" said bale-trunk and the periph- 'eral edge of said sheet extending to the perresulting spiral sheet, increment byincreinent,

spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

5. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and expressing the air therefrom and pressing the resulting spiralsheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the

axial edge of said sheet extending approxir mass or loose fibrous materialjand pressing Q I2 5' the resulting spiral sheetfiirnder strain, increment by increment, spirally'upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis-of Waste said bale-trunk and the peripheral edge of by'increment, spirally upon the end of a form-.

said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

, 7. The herein-described .method of baling fibrous material, which method "consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream ot' fibers from a mass of loose fibrous materal, subjectingthe resultingsheet to anlinitial compression and then finally compressing the sheet, increment by increment,- spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described.

8. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling l and intertwining said fibers and subjecting the resulting spiral sheet to an initial compression and then finally pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described. I

9. The herein-described methodo'l baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and I uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and by aninitial compression expressing the air from the rcsuiting spiral sheet, and finally pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming baldtrunk, substantially as described.

10. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, subjecting the resulting spiral sheet to an initial compression, and thereafter pressing said sheet, incre' ment by increment and under strain. spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described.

11. The herein'described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, subjecting the resulting sheet to an initial compression, placing and maintaining saiii sheet under tension from said initial compression and finally coin pressing the sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunlu substantially as described.

.152. The herein-deseribed,method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous aiul uniform sheet-spiral stream oi fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and p: 'a-lleling and inteitwining said fibers and subjecting the resulting spiral sheet to an initial compression and placing and maintaining said sheet under tension from said initial comprew sion and finally pressing said sheet, increment ing bale-trunk, substantially as described.

13. The hei'einrdescribed method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially eontiimous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers froma mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and by an initialcompression expressing the air from the resulting spiral sheet, placing and n'iaintaining said sheet under tension from said initial compression and finally pressing said sheet, incremcnt' by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described. a

14. The method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in generating from a mass of loose fibrousmaterial a plurality of sheet-spiral streams of fibers Ieadingouttherefrom, and ex iressinq' the air from said streams by highly compressing the streams between opposed members and formingthe compressed ranging a multiplicity of eonvolutions of such sheets together to form a cylindric end-built bale and securing them against reexpansion.

16. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers .from a mass of loose fibrous material and expelling the air from and pressing the resulting sheets, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming baletrunk, the axial edges of said sheets extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

17. The hereiirdeseribedmethod of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality oi thin, substantially continuous and uniformsheet-spiral streams oi fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and pressing the resulting spiral sheets, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edges of said sheets extending :nmroximatcly to the axis 01 said buletrunh and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, si'ibstantially as described.

18. The herein-described method ii baling fibrous materialswhich method consists in drawing a plurality of thii I substantially continuous and uniform SllBL piral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and expressing the air therefrom and pressing the resultiz'lg spiral sheets, increment by in- I 24. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and crement, spirally upon the end of a forming bale trunlz, the axial edges of said sheets extending approximately to the axis of said baletrunlt and the peripherahedges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

19. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, and pressing the resulting spiral sheets under strain, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk the axial edges of said sheets extendingapproximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending, to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

20. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin,-substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material,

"subjecting the resulting sheets to an initial compression and then finally compressing the sheets, increment by increment, upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described.

21. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform "sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining and subjecting the resulting spiral sheets to an initial com pression and then finally pressing said sheets, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as de scribed.

22. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawirva plurality (if thin, substantially continuou'sand uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and by an initial compression expressing the air from the resulting spiral sheets and then finally-pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described.

23, The herein-described method of baling fibrotismatcrial, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin,-substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose, fibrous material, subjecting the resulting spiral sheets to an ini: tial compression, and thereafter pressing said sheets, increment by increment and under strain, spirally uponthe end of a forming bale-trunk, substantially as described.

uniform. sheet spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and expelling the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of saidbale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal form and be: come nested, substantially as described.

2-5. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantiallycontinuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and pressing the resulting spiral sheet,increment by increment, spirallyflnpon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately tothe axis of said bale-trunk and vthe peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeterof the bale-trunk, and said-sheet being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal form and become nested, substantially as described.

26. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and expressing the air therefrom and pressing the resulting spiral sheet, increment by increment, spirally-upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal' form and become nested, substantially as de scribed. g 27. The herein-described method of balin fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, si'rbstantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, and pressing the resulting spiral sheet under strain, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said baletrunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined 00 the bale-trunk axis,' whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal form and become nested, subuniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, subjecting the resulting sheet to an nitial compression and Waste then finally com iiressing the sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal formand becomenested, substantially as described.

29. Theherein-describeitl method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantiallyteontinuous and uniform-'sheet-spiral stream'of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and subjecting the resulting spiral sheet to an initial compression andthen finally pressing'said sheet, increment ,by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined -to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal form and become nested, substantially as described.

; The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in clrawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and by an initial compression expressing the air from the re sulting spiral sheet, and finally pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon 'the end of a forming bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined -to the bale-trunk axis,

' axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal form and become nested, substantially as described.

32. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin," substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiralstream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrousmaterial, subjecting the. resulting sheet to an initial compression, plaemg andimaintainmg sald sheet under tension from said initial compresssion and finally coinpressing the sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and said sheet being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the 'convolutionsol said sheetassume conoidal form and become nested, substantially tSClQSC1l JO(l.

33. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists "in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said "fibers and subjecting the resulting spiral sheet to an 1nit1al combecome nested, substantially as described.

34:. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which' method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material andparalleling and intertwining said fibers and by an initial compression expressing the air from the resulting spiral sheet, placing and maintaining said sheet under tension from said initial compression and finally pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunl;, and said sheet being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheet assume conoidal form and become nested, substantially as (le scribed.

35. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially con tinuous and uniformsheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and expelling the air from and pressing the resulting sheets, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edges of said sheets extending approximately to the axis ofsaid bale-trunk and the 1: eripheral edges of said sheets extending tothe perimeter of the bale-trunk, and said sheets being inclined to the balc-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheets assume-conoidal form and become nested, substantially as described.

'tions of said sheet assume cono idal form and 36. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially contlnuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of libcrsfrom a mass of loose. fibrous material 37. The herein-described method of balingfibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers froma mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and expressing the air therefrom and pressing the resulting spiral sheets, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming baletrunk, the axial edges of said sheets extending approximately to the axis of said baletrunk'and the peripheral edges of said sheets extendingto the perimeter of the bale-trunk,

and said sheets being inclined to the bale trunk axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheets assume conoidal'form and become nested, substantially as described. m

38. The herein-describedmethod of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, and pressing the resulting spir-alsheets under strain, increment by increment, spi'rallyupon he end of a forming bale-trunk,the-axial dges of said sheets extending approximately ,0 the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and said sheets being inclined to the bale-trunk'axis, whereby the convolutions of said sheets assume conoid al form and become nested, substantially as described. i

- 39. The herein-described methodof baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, subjecting the resulting sheets toan initial compression and then finally pressing the sheets, increment by increment, upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and said sheets being inclined to the bale-trunk axis, whereby the convolutions-of said sheets assume conoidal form and become nested, substantially as (filescribed. x

40. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, -which method 'consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and expelling the air from and pressing the resulting spiral sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and thepe'ripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and transversely severing the completed portion of the baletrunk, substantially as described.

M. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantiallycontinuous and upiform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling rand-intertwining said fibersand pressing the resulting spiral sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of aforming bale trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk .and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of .thebale-trunli; and transversely severing the completed-portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described,

eral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter ofthe baletrunk, and transversely sevto the axis of said bale-trunk and theperiphering the completed portion ofthe bale-trunk,

substantially as described.

43*. The herein-desoribed method of baling l fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a' mass 'of loose fibrous material, and pressing the resulting spiral sheet under strain, 'incre-' ment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial-edge of said sheet extending approximately to-the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeterof the baletrunk, pleted portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

4A. The herein-describedmethod of baling fibrous material, which method consists in uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, subjecting the resulting sheet to an initial compressionand then finally compressing the sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

and transversely severing the com-" i drawing a thin, substantially continuous and too 45. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous'material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and subjectingthe resulting spiral sheet to'an initial compression and then finally pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunlnand transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

46. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and by an initial compression expressing the air from the re sulting spiral sheet, and finally pressing said 7 sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon I the end of a forming bale-trunl and transve'rsely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as describmh 47. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and by increment and under strain, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

48. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream 'of fibers from a 4:9. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, whiehmethod consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of libers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and subjecting the resulting spiral sheet to an initialcompression and placing and maintaining said sheet under tension from said initial compres- ,sion and finally pressing said sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a formipg bale-trunk, and transversely severing the 4 ,completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantiallyas described.

50. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fiberslfrom a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and by an initial compression expressing the air from the resulting spiral sheet, placing-and maintaining said sheet under tension from said initial compression and, finally presslng said sheet, 1n-

crement by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, and transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk,

substantially as described.

51. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality ofthin, substantially continuous and uniform sheetspiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material andexp'elling the air from and pressing the resulting sheets, increment by increment,

spirally. upon, the end of a forming bale-trunk,

the axial edges of said sheets extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunl and transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

'2. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consistsin drawing a plurality of thin, substantiallycon tinuons and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrousmaterial ,and paralleling and intertwiningsaid fibers and pressing the resulting spiral sheets, increment by increment, spirallyupon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edges of said sheets extending a;iproximatcly to the axis of said bale-trunk and the llfillplllill edges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as describe ;l.

53. fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and interwining said fibers and expressing the air therefrom and pressing the resulting spiral sheets, increment by incre- 11'1ent,'spirally upon the end of a forming baletrunk, the axial edges of said sheets extending approximately to the axis of said bale trunk and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and transversely severing the completed portion of the bale-trunk, substantially as described.

5a. The herein-described method of haling fibrousmaterial, which method consists in drawing a plurality of thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streams of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, and pressing the resulting spiral sheets under strain, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edges of said sheets extendingapproximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edges of said sheets extending to the per- The herein-described method of baling imeter of the bale-t1'unk,'and transversely severing the completed portion of the ba'letrunk, substantially as described.

on. The herein-describedmethod of baling fibrous .material, which method consists indrawing a plurality of thin, substantially con- 'tIIlUUUS and uniform sheet-spiral streams oi fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material, sub ectmg the resulting sheets to an initial compression and then finally pressing the sheets, increment by increment, upon the end v tially as described. V

- 57. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in forming a cyllndrical bale-trunk, then severing said trunk into individual sections or bales by the removal of integral fibersin planes to which the axis of said trunk is-perpentlicular, then embodying the fibers so removed with the fibers being formed into said bale-trunk, substantially as described.

58. The herein-describedsmethocl of baling fibrous material, which =-inethod consists in forming a bale-trunk by applying a continuous spiral layer of fibrous material obliquely and spirally around-the axis of said trunk, and'severing said trunk into sections by removing integral fibers in planes to which said axis is perpendicular, substantially as de- 59. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method-consists in .forming a bale-trunk by applying a continuous spiral layer of fibrous material o'bliouely and spirally around the axis of said trunk, and severing said trunk-into sections by removing integral fibers in planes to which said axis is perpendicular, then again embodying said fibers in said trunk by merging said fibers into said layer and continuing the application of said layer to said trunk, substantially as de-' scribed.

60. The herein-described method or baling fibrous material, which method consists in forming a bale-trunk by applying a continuous spiral sheet of compressed fibrous mate- :rial spirally and 'underhigh compression to the end of said trunk, and severing said trunk lnto sections by removing Integral fibers in ,planes to. which said axis is perpendicular,

substantially as described.

'61. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in forming a belle-trunk by applying a -continu ous spiral sheet of fibrous material spirally and under high compression to the end of said trunk, and severing said trunk into sections by removing integral fibers in planes to which said axisis perpendicular, then again embody ing said fibers in said trunk by merging said fibers into said sheet and continuing the application of said sheet to said trunk, substantially as described. I t

62. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibersffronra mass of loose fibrous material and expelling the air from and pressing the resulting spiral sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming;baletrunl the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said baie'trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and surrounding the the bale-trunk, surrounding the bale-trunk progressively with extraneous binding means, substantially as described. x

64. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consistsin drawings. thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral streamof fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling and intertwining said fibers and pressing the resulting spiral sheet, increment by increvtrunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extend:

surrounding the baletrunk by extraneous binding means, substantially as described.

65. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawing a'thin,. substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass of loose fibrous material and paralleling andintertwining said fibers and pressing the resultingspiral sheet,increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming bale-trunk, the axial edge of said sheet extendingapproximately to the'axis of said bale-trunkand the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and, simultaneously with the application of saidspiral sheet to the bale-trunk, surrounding the baletrunk progressively with extraneous binding means, substantially as described.

a 66. The herein-described method of baling fibrous material, .wliich method consists in drawing a thin, substantially continuous and uniform sheet-spiral stream of fibers from a mass or loose .fibrousmaterial and expelling theair from and pressing the resulting spiral the end of a forming bale trunk, the axial the axis of said bale-trunlrand the peripheral "edge of said sheet extending to ,the perimeter of the bale-trunk, and, simultaneously with the application of said spiral sheet to the baletrunk, applying radial pressure to the per-inn eter of the bale-trunk, and, simultaneously ing to the perimeter of the bale-trunle nd' bale-trunk by extraneous binding means, subeter'or' the. bale-trunk, and, simultaneously with the application of said spiral sheet to ment. spirally upon the end of a forming bale- 1' IIO sheet, increment by increment, spirally upon edge of said sheet extending approximately to :1 v

' and intertwining said fibers and pressing the iianeeiiatien resulting spiral sheet, increment by increment,

spirally upon the end of a forming hale-trunk, the axial edgeof said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said bale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter of the bale-trunl:, and, siniultancously with the application of said spiral sheet to the bale-trunk, applying radial pressure to the perimeter of tho bale-truni and, simultaneously With the application of said radial pressure, applying" cover fabric to said trunk under tension, substantially as described.

68. The herein-described method oi baling fibrous material, which method consists in drawinga thin, substantially continuous and {Ufiiciai Gazette, Gatoiier $20, 1908;]

Uniform sheet-spiral stream ol libel-s from a mass of loose fibrous material and. expelling the an from and pressing the resulting splralsheet, increment by increment, spirally upon the end of a forming baletrunk, the axial edge of said sheet extending approximately to the axis of said hale-trunk and the peripheral edge of said sheet extending to the perimeter 01" the haletrunl:, and, simultaneouslywith the application of said spiral sheet to the bale-trunk, applying radial pressure to the perimeter of the bale-trunln and, simultaneously with the application of said radial pressure, applying a straight sheet of cover fabric spirallyto said bale-trunkunder tension, substantially described.

In testimony whereof i have signed my name, in presence of two Witnesses, this Qdth Witnesses:

d; M. Q NKLIN, M. R. cln rrnm.

nni inxrtiitirlr on rein iirriearon,

Aeiameriiou, U. @eioter M, 190a in compliance with a decree otthe fiircnit Court of the United @tatee for the Western District of North @arolina, entered. at tlhe ()ctoloer term, 1908, in a cause in equity entitled United States of Americaae rut. Planters @onnpneee Company, complainant, w. llil'illiam Spoon, reepondentiwhieh decree in recorded in Liber ate, page it-Slot the assignment recorder oi the liinited liitatee Patent Ofiee, Letters Patent No. 776,956., granted to il/illiani iii dpoon, illl eeernher 5, 1904:, are hereby canceled.

Herman n. MUURE,

Commiimioaer, 

